The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89103   Message #1771740
Posted By: Elmer Fudd
29-Jun-06 - 01:05 AM
Thread Name: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
Subject: RE: BS: Sitting At The Kitchen Table
Jerry, speaking of Spike Jones, there is a recording he made during WW II called "Der Fuhrer's Face" in which the sputtering voice of Donald Duck is the voice of Hitler. I used to play it as a teaching aid in a history class.

I wrote to Disney Studios' public relations department on my school's letterhead stationary because I heard there was a Donald Duck cartoon that accompanied it. I was hoping they'd donate a copy to the school. Instead, a received a letter from their legal department written in legalese about how the recording was not representative of Disney's image because it could be construed to mock Germans, and forbidding me to play it in any public setting or else get sued!

Sheesh! Talk about the mouse that roared...

Elmer